Agree is considered one of the fundamental operations of Minimalist Syntax, responsible for establishing long-distance dependencies (e.g. agreement, wh-movement). Various models of Agree have been suggested over the last few...

Towards predicting phonetic drift in heritage speakers

From Points to Polygons: Modelling Spatial Correlation, Practice Talk for Evolang

The Factative Effect in Avatime The Factative Effect (Welmers 1973) is a phenomenon found in many African languages whereby a single aspectual category, often labeled the factative, seemingly has a...

Gradience, phonology and individual variation Research over the last few decades has consistently questioned the sufficiency of abstract/discrete phonological representations based on putative misalignments between predictions from such representations and...

Pragmatic effects can be hard to pin down in reading time measures. I'll talk about a garden-path-like effect resulting from eager causal inferencing in English discourses, which has been found once in eye-tracking (Hoek et al. 2021), but which I've failed to find in self-paced reading or Maze latencies (Duff 2023). Drawing on Clifton (2013),...